Child Nutrition Amendments of 1980

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Child Nutrition Amendments of 1980 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to extend to fiscal year 1985 the authorization of appropriationss for the summer food program for children and the Secretary of Agriculture's commodity purchasing authority. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to extend to fiscal year 1985 authorizations of appropriations for: (1) special payments to schools without food service programs or hot meal facilities; (2) State administrative expenses, including unused fund availability; (3) special supplemental food programs for pregnant women, infants, and young children; and (4) nutrition education and information programs. Requires a school governing authority to hold public hearings if it refuses to implement a school breakfast program in any school year in which not less than ten percent of the parents of children enrolled request such a program. Requires each State educational agency to submit to the Secretary for approval a plan of child nutrition operations for the following school year. Directs that such plan include a component pertaining to the school breakfast program which sets forth the manner in which such agency shall encourage participation in …